literal

adjective

• 1taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory:dreadful in its literal sense, full of dread
• free from exaggeration or distortion:you shouldn’t take this as a literal record of events
• informal absolute (used to emphasize that a strong expression is deliberately chosen to convey one’s feelings):fifteen years of literal hell

• 2(of a translation) representing the exact words of the original text.
• (of a visual representation) exactly copied; realistic as opposed to abstract or impressionistic.

• 3 (also literal-minded) (of a person or performance) lacking imagination; prosaic.

• 4of, in, or expressed by a letter or the letters of the alphabet:literal mnemonics

noun

• a misprint of a letter.